Rainbow warrior Mark Cavendish 's Olympic dream is on course after he made the cut for Britain's squad at the track cycling world championship.

The Manx missile will ride the multi-task omnium and, in a double act of pure box office gold, with Sir Bradley Wiggins in the madison at London's 'Pringle' velodrome next month.

In the space of 45 days this summer, Cavendish hopes to fill two missing pieces in the jigsaw of his career – the leader's Yellow Jersey on the Tour de France and an Olympic medal.

Le Tour opens on July 2 with the prospect of a sprint finish at Utah Beach, one of the Normandy landings for Allied troops on D-Day 72 years ago.

London: The Lee Valley VeloPark will play host to the Track Cycling World Championships (Image: Mike Hewitt)

Cavendish's likeliest source of joy at the Rio 2016 Olympics will be two days of omnium competition on August 14-15, while a flat world championship course, finishing on the cobbles in Doha on October 16, will also give him the scent of a second rainbow jersey on the road.

His inclusion in a 21-man squad for the track world championship on home boards from March 2-6 is the clearest indication yet that Team GB's king of the sprinters is on track to race in Rio.

Bicycle repair man Cavendish, who won the Tour of Qatar last week, was last spotted helping a female cyclist Fran Cutts mend a flat tyre in Tottenham Hale on Valentine's Day when he happened to spot a fellow rider in distress.

He said: “I'll be proud to pull on the Great Britain jersey again. It will be my first time ever riding at the Olympic velodrome.”

Return: Ed Clancy has recovered from injury to make the squad (Image: PA)

Earlier this month, training in Dubai, 30-year-old Cavendish told Global Cycling Network he could not prioritise one of his prime targets for 2016 ahead of the others, saying” “I can't pick one because I might not get any of them.

“They are not my only aims for the year, but they are the ones that create headlines. Yes, I want to win what I can, but I don't want to end up peaking in July (for the Tour) and falling short in October.

“I just want to make my kids proud – my daughter Delilah is now old enough to know how well I've done in races because she knows I get a bunch of flowers when I win, so if I don't come home with the flowers, she is pretty upset.”

Manx missile: Cavendish celebrates a stage win at the Tour de France in 2012 (Image: Reuters)

In Beijing eight years ago, Cavendish was dealt a cruel hand when he came home as the only member of Team GB's cycling squad without a medal after Wiggins, exhausted by his twin gold medals in pursuit endurance disciplines, found the tank was empty.

And when Cavendish was expected to lead the host nation's medal charge up The Mall on the first day of competition at London 2012, the Brits were frozen out by a tactical carve-up on the nine ascents of Box Hill.

But confirming that Wiggins and Cavendish will reform their partnership at the Olympic velopark, British Cycling technical director Shane Sutton said: “They are back together and it will be nice to see them out there.

“This squad is made from the basis of the Olympic team and we've selected the strongest squad available to us. I'm expecting to see some strong performances across the board in London.”